Question on sudoers syntax

[Lunt, Nick]

Hi Aaron,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bliss, Aaron [mailto:ABliss at preferredcare.org]
> Sent: 02 May 2006 14:46
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Question on sudoers syntax
> 
> 
> I'm sure you guys will know the answer to this straight away; is it
> possible to give a specific user access to a specific directory?  I
> would rather not change the directory permission or 
> user/group ownership
> of the directory (nor can I make the user a group member of 
> the current
> directory owner); it's not possible to predict the name of the files
> that the application creates, only where the files will be; my goal is
> to give a specific group of users the ability to do a 
> directory listing
> of a specific directory as well as permissions to more or cat any file
> in that directory (again, the file name is not know, only the
> directory); when I was presented with this, it sounded like something
> for sudoers; while I could put together a script that the 
> users can run,
> I was hoping that I could just put this into sudoers.  Any ideas?
> Thanks very much.

Ive never used sudo for this sort of thing. I'd use acl's.

Edit the fstab to add acl to the options for the filesystem in question.
Then mount -o remount it
Then if the user is named FRED run
setfacl -m u:fred:rx /some/dir


Good luck,
Nick .

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